1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	26 athletes from 18 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Barcelona
Competition phase	July 31, 1992 (qualification / final)
Medalist Mike Stulce ( USA )   Jim Doehring ( USA )   Vyacheslav Lycho ( EUN )

The shot put men at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona was on 31 July 1992 at the Olympic Stadium Barcelona held. 26 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the American Mike Stulce , who won ahead of his compatriot Jim Doehring . The bronze medal went to the Russian Vyacheslav Lycho , who started for the united team .

Udo Beyer and Ulf Timmermann started for Germany . Beyer, the oldest participant in the field at 36, failed to qualify for his fourth participation in the Olympic Games. Timmermann reached the final and was fifth.
The Swiss Werner Günthör qualified for the final. He reached number four.
Klaus Bodenmüller from Austria also made it to the final, in which he finished sixth.
Athletes from Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion in 1988	Ulf Timmermann ( GDR )	22.47 m	Seoul 1988
World Champion 1991	Werner Günthör ( Switzerland )	21.67 m	Tokyo 1991
European champion 1990	Ulf Timmermann ( GDR )	21.32 m	Split 1990
Pan American champion 1991	Gert Weil ( Chile )	19.47 m	Havana 1991
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1991	Francisco Ball ( Puerto Rico )	17.50 m	Xalapa 1991
South American Champion 1991	Gert Weil ( Chile )	18.37 m	Manaus 1991
Asian champion 1991	Cheng Shaobo ( People's Republic of China )	18.11 m	Kuala Lumpur 1991
African Champion 1992	Chima Ugwu ( Nigeria )	18.50 m	Belle Vue Maurel 1992
Oceania Champion 1990	Douglas Mace ( New Zealand )	15.60 m	Suva 1990

Existing records

World record	23.12 m	Randy Barnes ( USA )	Los Angeles , USA	May 20, 1990
Olympic record	22.47 m	Ulf Timmermann ( GDR )	Final from Seoul , South Korea	September 23, 1988

Doping issue

The doping problem was also great in athletics. In particular after the scandal surrounding the Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson at the Seoul Games in 1988 , further doping cases in athletics became known. The doping investigators found what they were looking for, especially in the shot put . All three medal winners had become conspicuous in the past. Mike Stulce had been banned for two years for taking synthetic testosterone and was able to compete again in early 1992. After his Olympic victory, he entered the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart and finished third. However, he was tested positive and disqualified. He was also banned for life as a repeat offender. Jim Doehring's two-year ban - also doping with testosterone - was lifted shortly before the US Olympic eliminations after eighteen months due to a procedural error. Vyacheslav Lycho was stripped of his bronze medal, which he won at the 1990 European Championships in Split , after testing positive for methamphetamine ( crystal meth ) intake . He was banned for three months.

For the first time, three athletes won Olympic medals in a discipline that had previously been banned for various doping offenses.

qualification

Date: July 31, 1992

For the qualification the participants were drawn into two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 19.80 m. Since only ten athletes exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups by two more participants (highlighted in light green). So finally 19.65 m was enough for the final.

Group A

Udo Beyer (left) - failed in qualification - and Ulf Timmermann (right) - fifth in the final - on a recording from 1990

Zlatan Saračević was the first athlete who competed for Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Olympic Games.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Werner Günthör	Switzerland	20.50 m	-	-	20.50 m
2	Luciano Zerbini	Italy	20.25 m	-	-	20.25 m
3	Dragan Peric	IOP	x	18.35 m	20.24 m	20.24 m	Participants from Serbia
4th	Vyacheslav Lycho	EUN	x	20.24 m	-	20.24 m	Participants from Russia
5	Mike Stulce	United States	20.18 m	-	-	20.18 m
6th	Ron Backes	United States	19.71 m	19.35 m	x	19.71 m
7th	Gert Weil	Chile	18.41 m	19.04 m	19.41 m	19.41 m
8th	Paul Edwards	Great Britain	18.57 m	19.03 m	18.80 m	19.03 m
9	Kent Larsson	Sweden	18.46 m	x	18.56 m	18.56 m
10	Udo Beyer	Germany	18.47 m	x	x	18.47 m
11	Victor Costello	Ireland	15.99 m	17.15 m	x	17.15 m
12	Zlatan Saračević	Bosnia and Herzegovina	x	15.12 m	16.38 m	16.38 m
DNS	Kalman Konya	Germany

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Jim Doehring	United States	19.77 m	20.53 m	-	20.53 m
2	Oleksandr Klymenko	EUN	19.33 m	20.16 m	-	20.16 m	Participants from Ukraine
3	Alessandro Andrei	Italy	19.51 m	19.51 m	20.14 m	20.14 m
4th	Ulf Timmermann	Germany	19.62 m	19.73 m	19.93 m	19.93 m
5	Klaus Bodenmüller	Austria	19.56 m	19.86 m	-	19.86 m
6th	Soeren Tallhem	Sweden	18.41 m	19.18 m	19.65 m	19.65 m
7th	Pétur Guðmundsson	Iceland	18.46 m	18.76 m	19.15 m	19.15 m
8th	Andrij Nemchaninov	EUN	18.91 m	18.98 m	x	18.98 m	Participants from Ukraine
9	Gheorghe Guşet	Romania	18.41 m	x	18.96 m	18.96 m
10	Antero Paljakka	Finland	18.42 m	x	x	18.42 m
11	Khaled Al-Khalidi	Saudi Arabia	17.56 m	17.72 m	17.50 m	17.72 m
12	Paul Quirke	Ireland	16.71 m	17.01 m	16.99 m	17.01 m
13	Bilal Saad Mubarak	Qatar	16.91 m	16.98 m	x	16.98 m
14th	Peter Dajia	Canada	x	x	16.81 m	16.81 m

final

Date: July 31, 1992

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, ten of them over the required qualification distance, two over their placements behind. All three US athletes were in the final, as were two Italians and two members of the combined team. The final field was completed by one participant each from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Sweden, as well as an independent Olympic participant.

The clear favorite to win the Olympic gold was the Swiss world champion Werner Günthör. The outcome in the fight for the other medals seemed very open. The Olympic champions from 1988 and 1984 Ulf Timmermann - starting in 1988 for the GDR - and the Italian Alessandro Andrei were in the final, but both were no longer in the form of their strong years. Due to excellent seasonal performance, the US athletes were also among the contenders for top positions.

With Udo Beyer, the Olympic champion from 1976 - at the start for the GDR - was one of the participants. He was eliminated sixteen years after his victory in Montreal with 18.47 m in qualification.

The American Mike Stulce took the lead in his first attempt with 21.49 m. With 20.93 m, Vyacheslav Lycho from Russia, who started for the united team, was more than half a meter behind Stulce. In the second attempt, both were able to improve their widths, Stulce by nine centimeters to 21.58 m, Lycho by one centimeter to 20.94 m. Lycho fell back to third place, because the American Jim Doehring hit 20.96 m. In the further course, nothing changed in the classification. Stulce was the only athlete to put the ball past the 21-meter mark. In the fourth attempt he managed 21.11 m, in the fifth even 21.70 m. Günthör missed a medal by three centimeters with 20.91 m in his last stroke. Timmermann was right behind Günthör in fifth with 20.49 m, while Alessandro Andrei with 19.62 m did not get past eleventh place.

Mike Stulce's win in the 22nd Olympic final was the 15th win by a US shot putter. It was also the 13th double success for the USA in this discipline.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Mike Stulce	United States	21.49 m	21.58 m	x	21.11 m	21.70 m	x	21.70 m
2	Jim Doehring	United States	19.89 m	20.96 m	x	20.17 m	x	20.93 m	20.96 m
3	Vyacheslav Lycho	EUN	20.93 m	20.94 m	20.79 m	x	19.99 m	20.35 m	20.94 m
4th	Werner Günthör	Switzerland	19.74 m	20.01 m	20.27 m	20.85 m	x	20.91 m	20.91 m
5	Ulf Timmermann	Germany	20.12 m	20.03 m	19.82 m	20.49 m	20.10 m	20.38 m	20.49 m
6th	Klaus Bodenmüller	Austria	20.13 m	20.19 m	20.48 m	20.39 m	19.81 m	19.92 m	20.48 m
7th	Dragan Peric	IOP	x	19.90 m	19.59 m	20.07 m	x	20.32 m	20.32 m
8th	Oleksandr Klymenko	EUN	x	20.23 m	x	x	x	20.14 m	20.23 m
9	Luciano Zerbini	Italy	19.88 m	19.75 m	19.54 m	not in the final of the eight best athletes			19.88 m
10	Ron Backes	United States	19.75 m	x	x				19.75 m
11	Alessandro Andrei	Italy	19.46 m	19.53 m	19.62 m				19.62 m
12	Soeren Tallhem	Sweden	18.31 m	19.32 m	x				19.32 m

Web links

• SportsReference Shot Put , accessed February 12, 2018
• Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 50f, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 12, 2018

Video

• Men's Shot Put Final Barcelona Olympics 1992 , published November 4, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed February 12, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 678 , accessed on February 12, 2018
2. ↑ Los Angeles Times announcement of August 1, 1992 , accessed February 12, 2018
3. ↑ Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 1994. London 1994, ISBN 1-873057-21-0
4. ^ Announcement in the Los Angeles Times dated March 26, 1992 , accessed on February 12, 2018
5. ↑ Article in the Independent of August 1, 1992 , accessed February 12, 2018
6. ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 50, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 12, 2018
7. ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 51, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 12, 2018